What is the easiest carpeting plants?

[green_valley]

I have to be honest with, I still have yet to have a successful carpeting in any of my tanks. In your opinion/experience, what is the easiest carpeting plants?

Here are the list that I know:


HC (I know that's not easy for me)
UG
Dwarf hairgrass
marsilea minuta
Glosso
Dwarf Sags
Dwarf Riccia
Micro Swords

[DerekFF]

Glosso, dhg and MM are super easy

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[Da Plant Man]

Thats about all the carpeting plants.. There is also hydrocotyle sp. 'japan', Ranunculus indatus(sp?), and Staurogyne repens, S. Porto velho, and S. purple.

[D3monic]

I like UG so far.

[jkan0228]

There's also MQ. Marsilia Quadrifolia.

[green_valley]

Originally Posted by DerekFF

Glosso, dhg and MM are super easy

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MM is great and pretty fast. I heard DHG is pretty slow??? and I have not had a success with Glosso.

Originally Posted by Da Plant Man

Thats about all the carpeting plants.. There is also hydrocotyle sp. 'japan', Ranunculus indatus(sp?), and Staurogyne repens, S. Porto velho, and S. purple.

Thanks Plant Man.

Originally Posted by D3monic

I like UG so far.

I saw some great UG carpet. But it seems like they get really really thick????

Originally Posted by jkan0228

There's also MQ. Marsilia Quadrifolia.

I am not sure if this would carpet nicely. From what I understand, they're pretty tall.

[jkan0228]

From my understanding, MQ stays pretty low.

MN and MQ one has bigger leaves. Forgot which one it was.

[Seattle_Aquarist]

Hi green valley,

I find that it depends on the lighting, CO2 or not, and water conditions but Marsilea minuta is one of the easier ones.

Marsilea minuta

[DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR]

MM is pretty easy. dhg is not hard either. both will grow fine under medium-low lighting levels.


In my experience HC is pretty hard and whenever i recieved glosso in the mail it had melted.

E. Tennelus is the easiest foreground plant you can use. it doesnt require a lot of light to form a carpet although it will grow kind of tall., and under high light it spreads real fast and will grow low.

[@marko@]

moss is the easiest plant to care for.
and it can be made into a carpet:
take plastic or stainless steel mesh and cut 2 identical pieces, each that fits the area you want carpeted.
put moss inbetween them, place something to weigh it down in too
staple or tie the mesh together.
place in tank and the moss will grow out through the mesh.

if you have CO2, than you can carpet riccia. riccia is a weed, and can survive floating in every tank. in a CO2 tank it can be tied to rocks and forms a carpet very quickly.

[DerekFF]

Dhg is a little slow, but easy. MM is bomb proof. UG........i just cant grow it for the life of me

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[OVT]

E. Tennelus is easily breaking a 12" mark in my high light tank and does spread like fire. About 3-4" in a med-light tank, and ~1" in a low-med tank. In the low-med light only rocks grow slower.

[green_valley]

Originally Posted by jkan0228

From my understanding, MQ stays pretty low.

MN and MQ one has bigger leaves. Forgot which one it was.

Yeah, I am not too sure either.

Originally Posted by Seattle_Aquarist

Hi green valley,

I find that it depends on the lighting, CO2 or not, and water conditions but Marsilea minuta is one of the easier ones.

Marsilea minuta

Agreed. I kinda want to try something different this time.


[QUOTE=DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR;1840976
E. Tennelus is the easiest foreground plant you can use. it doesnt require a lot of light to form a carpet although it will grow kind of tall., and under high light it spreads real fast and will grow low.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that plant is pretty tall. Not my taste of carpeting.

Originally Posted by @marko@

moss is the easiest plant to care for.
and it can be made into a carpet:
take plastic or stainless steel mesh and cut 2 identical pieces, each that fits the area you want carpeted.
put moss inbetween them, place something to weigh it down in too
staple or tie the mesh together.
place in tank and the moss will grow out through the mesh.

if you have CO2, than you can carpet riccia. riccia is a weed, and can survive floating in every tank. in a CO2 tank it can be tied to rocks and forms a carpet very quickly.

I would like to try Riccia in hi-light tank. I try in low light, and it was gone obviously. haha

Originally Posted by DerekFF

Dhg is a little slow, but easy. MM is bomb proof. UG........i just cant grow it for the life of me

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Is DHG still pretty slow even with CO2 and highlight?

Originally Posted by OVT

E. Tennelus is easily breaking a 12" mark in my high light tank and does spread like fire. About 3-4" in a med-light tank, and ~1" in a low-med tank. In the low-med light only rocks grow slower.

The look is too thick for me.

[Da Plant Man]

FYI, E. Tennelus was renamed to Helanthium tenellum.

[tatersalad]

Dwarf sagg has been doing great for me, looks like a lawn of St. Augustin grass.